CA CA - Bob Harrod, 81, Orange County, 27 July 2009 - #18

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There is all the concern about wildfires, and San Bernardino workers have managed to start a man made one. They've set fire to a bridge on the Cajon Pass, Hesperia, and it's collapsed and the freeway's closed. They've been building a new overpass too.

Whenever there is major construction or demolition like that, I always think of the chance of long buried human remains being found. Especially under bridges. I find all those deserts lands up around Victorville a little creepy actually - so many human remains seem to have been found around there.

http://blog.pe.com/breaking-news/2014/05/05/hesperia-fire-collapsing-freeway-bridge-closing-i-15/
 
Mmmm. A judge has ruled hikers don't have to pay fees to the US Forest service anymore, for hiking in undeveloped areas of certain national forests (Cleveland, Los Padres, Angeles and San B).

I'm torn. Part of those fees went for 'visitor services'. Does that include Forest Service searches when they go missing? And will it make it harder to trace lost visitors, if they haven't purchased a pass?

The flip side is it might encourage more visitors, more often, maybe? That's more people who may stumble across our missing....

http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/2...adventure-pass-in-southern-california-forests
 
I am going to put this Inland Empire twitter and any other useful news ones I can find in Bob's thread. They are handy for breaking news, especially the kind we are all waiting for.

https://mobile.twitter.com/iecrimejourno

Sadly, no one seems to have reported on the sentencing of the killers of 90 year old Josephine Kelley. All three charged have been convicted now and their sentencing dates are long gone. It's odd that the resolution of a 2005 cold case is so low profile. It was such an horrendous crime, with such a vulnerable victim.
 
I meant to say I was going to put the twitters together, in Bob's MEDIA thread.

I'll link it here when it's done.

ETA: There's a motion hearing scheduled for May 14th in Josephine's case (whatever that it). So I think that's why there's been no sentencing yet.
 
One fire bug in OC seems to have been found...or rather, to be safe, there have been several fires at the Muckenthaler Center in Fullerton, and one woman has been charged with causing the latest.....

It's on the OC Weekly site, but they keep cussing and I don't know if I can link it ......
 
South Orange is hosting its first ever garden show soon.

http://www.octa.net/Metrolink/OCTA-Promotions/Eco-Xpo-Garden-Show/

It set me thinking, that Bob's birthday and missing anniversary are coming up soon. And lots of flowers have lots of meanings. So maybe we could mark those occasions by posting pics of flowers, with relevant meanings? That might be nice. I'll go hunting for links.
 
Placentia police have got a twitter! I was so sure they wouldn't have one, I never bothered to check.

Last entry, Chief Hicks was 572 on March 8th, apparently. :) Hopefully, now we are all watching, it may get updated soon....

https://mobile.twitter.com/PlacentiaPD
 
I don't want to go off topic, but I have been hanging around in the case of the murder trial of South African, Oscar Pistorius - a disabled Olympic athlete.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=243640&highlight=oscar+pistorius

During a break, a poster there posted a big pic and link to this CA story....a little chihuaha abandoned on a hwy barrier in CA. The poster wondered what the officer had in his hand. With confidence, I announced you could tell just by looking the officer was offering the little dog part of his lunch, in case it tried to bite him. And no way on earth - you could tell just by looking - would it have tried to bite him.

I can't say how wrong I was, on all counts. It was an energy bar, (so hardly lunch?) and the little hound did indeed try to bite his rescuer;
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-chihuahua-bite-chp-officer-20140512-story.html

I think the little mutt got safely rescued despite himself, anyhow...:)
 
"You never forget your first love," said Bob, looking at Joy.

Bob certainly never did. He and Joy were sweethearts before World War II. They met working at the same pharmacy at Rural and Michigan.

"14 cents an hour they were paying her," laughed Bob.

When World War II broke out, the Army sent Bob to the South Pacific.

"She was the only one who was writing to me in Okinawa when I was in combat," Bob explained.

"In those days, we wrote letters because calling was too expensive," Joy said.


After the war ended though, the two lost touch.

http://www.wthr.com/story/25458528/...nd-chance-at-love-70-years-after-losing-touch



I saw this on the news a few days ago. A story so similiar to Bob and Fontelle. My heart went from joy for Bob and Joy to immediate fear and my second thought was don't have any family meetings about money!

A bittersweet reaction. It leaves my heart heavy for all that was stolen from Bob and Fontelle. Praying Bob is found soon and justice comes quickly for him. The coward(s) who did this to Bob deserve punishment to the fullest extent of the law.

Praying this couple has a much more joyous outcome and are able to live their remaining years happily and peacefully.
 
Oh good heavens, how sweet are they?

First thing he says, after all those years is, 'Don't hang up'.

'Why would I hang up?', says Joy.

Then Bob says there was no going down on one knee, as if he did, he'd still be there!

I really hope this couple are blissfully happy, and their families are too.
 
I hope all locals are okay. OC's pretty smokey apparently, but that's coming in from the San Diego fires.

There have been some small fires in Bob's 'region'' too though - and someone has been arrested on suspicion of deliberately starting a creek bed fire in San Juan Capistrano.

It's just dreadful - over $20m damage so far in San Diego, with one body found, a few injuries to firefighters and two arrests on suspected arson. But the initial fire at least, is thought to have been started accidentally, by use of some kind of tool or machinery.

I hope that deceased person doesn't join our ranks of UIDs, but I've a feeling they might. I believe they were found in or near a transient encampment.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20140516_ap_908bc861966f44e285abd0262b8e7df6.html
 
It's a shame CA Carlsbad isn't a little more like its German namesake, Karlsbad. Rain and more rain recently.
 
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